EMAIL: ethelm@bigfoot.com

NAME: Ian & Ethel MacKay

TOPIC: Night

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TITLE: Summer Night - Outback Australia

COUNTRY: Australia

WEBPAGE: http://www.hermes.net.au/artwerx

RENDERER USED: Povray 3.01

TOOLS USED: Neopaint

RENDER TIME: 22 hours 0m 36sec

HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

The competition subject 'night' reminded me of
nights in the bush before we had electricity.

The bush/outback in Australia is the inland/beyond the ranges/not city or civilisation/where there were no roads only tracks/where there was no telephone or electricity/ where the land, the trees and the wildlife were barely touched by man.
'The bush' has been disappearing, bit by bit through the 20th century.

With no other lights for many miles the nights were often very black. 

The only light was the Coleman Petrol (Gasoline) Lantern.

It soon attracted a cloud of flying insects so we would leave 
it out on the verandah rather than have the house filled up with insects. The light seemed very bright but trees were only dim shapes in the dark.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I still have the old Coleman Lantern so the image was made with the measurements from the original. The Lantern is CSG. The glass is cubic spline lathe with 'thickness' in the glass wall (which had some unintended effects).

The ground is Povray wrinkles used as a heightfield. The top of the matchbox has an image map made in Neopaint.

There are 4 light sources. I tried an area light but it was too slow and the result was a disappointement - further experiment is needed.

The rest of the image is CSG with nothing fancy. Most of the verandah was made so that it would reflect in the chrome.

The gum (eucalypts) trees are tall with the leaves high up out of view (this is how they grow, for those who want to know where the foliage is).

The moths are 'generic'. 

There is no banding in the TGA image. The outer night should be quite black.

POV file is included as sumrnite.zip